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Weaselpie
Junior member
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2022
- Messages
- 5
- Location
- Norfolk, UK
It's currently 3.25 am and I have spent the past hour sat in the garden howling at the moon! The past two covid years have taken their toll and my health anxiety is out of control. I am a self-employed artist so you can imagine what lockdowns and restrictions have done to my income!! Just a week before the first lockdown a crown placed on a molar tooth 10 months previously fell off and had to be stuck back on. I haven't been able to afford to see my dentists since (private), and, because of the health anxiety have been putting it off anyway. Finally went a few weeks ago as I knew an old root canalled molar tooth was cracked. Dentist confident he could repair with a crown. I spent 2 weeks with a temp filling while he went on holiday and had the crown placed today. We agreed on a temporary fitting because I apparently now have an open bite due to previous NHS butchery and this needs to be adressed before final fitting. However, I wasn't prepared for the thing to fall off within 8 hours!!!! I had expressly told dentist that I need something that will be reliable for at least a month as I have an important teaching opportunity at the beginning of March and can't afford to be stressing about my teeth when I should be teaching students how to sculpt. What has just happened has confirmed my worst fears and now I don't trust ANY of the restorations this guy has placed on my teeth. I am back to a diet of porridge and smoothies and I just can't hack this crap any more!!! I wish I had just let my old NHS dentist pull out the teeth 3 years ago, but I was/am terrified of having big molar teeth extracted. I am at my wits end - sleep deprived, stressed, and extremely hungry!! I don't know what to do - it feels like my bite has been ruined and my teeth mutilated and all for nothing, and I have paid a king's ransom for the priviledge. Please can anyone help/reassure/advise? The dental practice is one that comes highly recommedned, including on this website. Thanks.